Nikki just gave me early Christmas presents and they are AWESOME! She is going home to spend the holidays with her family tomorrow though and that is less awesome. I found links on the internet and they are somewhere between those two extremes on the awesomeness scale.

Sooooo I kinda feel like this is all totally correct. I know there’s been a pretty swift reaction against the “sky is falling” folks about Instagram where everybody’s pretty convinced it’ll turn out to be a fine business decision andâ€¦I’m less convinced. This feels like the year where everybody started to feel the kind of grim inevitability they feel for large institutions like government or banks for Facebook and Twitter and social networking in general. In fact I sorta think that’s what all the “the internet is dead and totally ruined compared to when I found it and it was still cool” editorials I’ve seen around lately. We all still use social networking but nobody actually musters up any enthusiasm about it anymore and in the absence of anything “next” showing up yet there’s just this weird sense of decay the internet hasn’t really gone through in about a decade and everybody’s flipping out.